Submitted by Mike Archer & Vince Dimanno From Mike Archer… I knew Bas primarily through two areas of his life which coincided with mine. When I was editor of Abbotsford…
Vancouver, B.C. [October 21]—The B.C. Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a group of homeless people challenging municipal bylaws that displace them from public spaces. In a decision delivered…
UPDATED 4/22/2015, 16:45 Abbotsford Drug War Survivors Launch Major InitiativeTo Draw Attention To The Plight Of The Homeless In Abbotsford Abbotsford, BC 22/4/2015 – This week the Abbotsford Chapter of…
By Mike Archer. The City of Abbotsford has reportedly been involved in serious behind-the-scenes discussions since the beginning of January in order to follow through on Council’s direction to staff…
By DJ Larkin. On Friday, March 27, the B.C. Court of Appeal delivered two rulings that represent significant victories for homeless people in Abbotsford and across Canada. The court heard two…
From Facebook. Tomorrow, we’ll [Pivot Legal Society] be in the court of appeal defending a lawsuit seeking to protect the constitutional rights of homeless people in Abbotsford and arguing for…
The Abbotsford Police Departmet’s (APD) refusal to hand over documents to the BC Supreme Court because, according to the APD, the cost of surrending those documents could run anywhere from…
By Ron Kneebone, Meaghan Bell, Nicole Jackson,Kneebone, Ali Jadidzadeh. From The Homeless Hub In 2008, Calgary was the first city in Canada to institute a 10-year plan to end homelessness….
1, 2, 3 to Ending Homelessness By James Breckenridge. To End Homelessness the number of homeless permanently housed must exceed the number of new homeless over a given time period….
The following statement has been released by Mayor Henry Braun regarding the City’s response to the life-safety issues at the Gladys Road encampment: “Following the fire incident last night at…